Side By Side By Sondheim ( 1976 ), Marry Me A Little ( 1980 ), You're Gonna Love Tomorrow ( 1983 ) Putting It Together ( 1993 ), and Sondheim on Sondheim ( 2010 ) are anthologies or revues of Sondheim's work as composer and lyricist, featuring both songs performed and cut from productions.

Sondheim's work is also featured in The Madwoman of Central Park West, including the songs " Pretty Women " and " Everybody Ought to Have a Maid ".

* Sweeney Todd, ( 2007 ) a movie adaptation of the stage work, made with Sondheim's participation and approval, was directed by Tim Burton, featuring a largely nonmusical cast led by Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.

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Additionally, she appeared in several concerts featuring Sondheim's work, and performed for him at his 1993 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony.

In reviewing the 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production, The Telegraph reviewer wrote that " Sondheim's lyrics are often superbly witty, his music here, mostly in haunting waltz-time, far more accessible than is sometimes the case.

The score is generally considered to be one of Sondheim's most ambitious and sophisticated efforts.

" Someone in a Tree ," where two witnesses describe negotiations between the Japanese and Americans, is Sondheim's favorite song out of everything he's ever written.

To fans, Sondheim's musical sophistication is considered to be greater than that of many of his musical theatre peers, and his lyrics are likewise renowned for their ambiguity, wit, and urbanity.

Merrily We Roll Along ( 1981 ), with a book by George Furth, is one of Sondheim's more " traditional " scores and was thought to hold potential to generate some hit songs ( Frank Sinatra and Carly Simon each recorded a different song from the show ).

Sondheim's music director, Paul Gemignani, said, “ Part of Steve ’ s ability is this extraordinary versatility .” Merrily, however, was a 16-performance flop.

* Follies, allegedly in pre-production is the film of Sondheim's Follies, with a script by Aaron Sorkin.

Per Sondheim's request, a prize is also offered for a new song by a young composer, judged by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe.

A supporting character, Obsidian, is shown to be a fan of Sondheim's musical.

At the end of Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs, William Shakespeare is competing against George Bernard Shaw for the title of best playwright, deciding which of them is to be brought back from the dead in order to improve the world.

Glynis Johns ( born 5 October 1923 ) is a South African-born Welsh stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer ( notably of " Send in the Clowns ", which she originated in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, and " Sister Suffragette " which was written for her for Walt Disney's musical motion picture, Mary Poppins written by the Sherman Brothers ).

Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods features the Big Bad Wolf as a lustful and well-endowed character whose appetite for Little Red Riding Hood is more sexual than victual.

Tokugawa Ieyoshi is a minor character in Stephen Sondheim's musical " Pacific Overtures ," in which he is murdered by his mother, using poisoned chrysanthemum tea.

Disney has announced that Marshall is set to direct a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.

Byck is also one of the ( failed ) assassins portrayed in Stephen Sondheim's and John Weidman's 1991 musical Assassins.

Kerry O ' Malley, his younger New Hampshire-born sister, is also an actress and a Broadway veteran ; she received critical attention for her role in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods and recently appeared in several episodes of Showtime's Brotherhood.

She is known for her performance of " The Ladies Who Lunch " in Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical Company, her 2001 one-woman show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, and recently for her role as Jack Donaghy's mother Colleen on NBC's 30 Rock.

The seven musicians lack firepower for huge orchestral crescendos, but tease out the score's claustrophobic elements ... The Gate's interpretation of Sondheim's masterpiece is exciting and thoughtful, tragic and witty, entertaining yet provoking: a family musical, but not as we know it.

Peters ' other theatre roles have included Bedroom Farce ( 1996 ), Noises Off ( 1997 ) Stephen Sondheim's ' Into The Woods '( 1992 ), The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1991 ), Follies in Concert, London Palladium ( 2007 ) and Guys and Dolls ( 1991 ) which was reviewed by Michael Schmidt who said " Among the hot box girls, one in particular kept catching my eye: Wendi Peters as the grumpy chorus girl is a delightfully outsize killjoy whose brilliant comic dancing should have earned her a curtain call all of her own "

In particular, notable tracks include Gunston's bizarre but inspired interpretations of Liza Minnelli's " Liza With a Z ", David Gates ' " If ", Tom Jones ' " Delilah ", Stephen Sondheim's " Send in the Clowns ", " Jailhouse Rock ", " Piano Man ", " Vesti La Giubba ", " A little love and understanding ", " Daddy what if?

On Broadway, he appeared in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, Kander & Ebb's The Rink, Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, Accomplice, and Jerome Robbins ' Broadway, for which he garnered the 1989 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

The elder Hammerstein became Sondheim's surrogate father, and had a profound influence on him, especially in developing a love for musical theatre.

Several of Sondheim's songs were dropped for the film version.

* 2010: Judi Dench Sang the song on BBC Proms for Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday celebrations.

Since then, Elfman has scored every film that Tim Burton has directed except for Ed Wood ( because of a falling out that they had ) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street because the music was based on Stephen Sondheim's musical.

She has acted with the National Theatre in London where, in September 1995, she played Desiree Armfeldt in a major revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, for which she won an Olivier Award.

His other stage appearances included musicals such as She Loves Me, Gigi ( as Gaston ), and Stephen Sondheim's Follies ( as Benjamin Stone ), for which he won another Olivier Award.

Doing the show for three years, she said she never tired of Sondheim's music ; " No matter how tired or off you felt, the music would just pick you up.

It can be found in West Side Story, for instance, in Stephen Sondheim's original lyrics to " Gee, Officer Krupke " ( 1957 ).

Original Broadway Cast recording of the musical was nominated for 1988 Grammy Award in the category Best Musical Cast Show Album ( won by the Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods ).

The headstone of Dorothy LoudonLoudon was married to Norman Paris, a composer who wrote the theme song for the television game show I've Got a Secret and arranged the music for Stephen Sondheim's television musical Evening Primrose, from 1971 until his death in 1977.

She next sang the role of Mrs Lovett in the New York City Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd in March 2004, earning positive reviews from critics, and a nomination for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical.

Her last stage performance was a 1998 production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies, in which she played the hardboiled survivor Carlotta Campion and received rave reviews for her rendition of the song " I'm Still Here ".

Of Sondheim's Company, Kerr wrote that the show was too cold, cynical and distant for his taste, though he " admitted to admiring large parts of the show.

Gallagher graduated from Tufts University, where he had been active in theater, appearing in such shows as Stephen Sondheim's Company and singing with the all-male a cappella group the Beelzebubs.

In his review of Sondheim's Follies, he wrote " ' Follies ' " is intermissionless and exhausting, an extravaganza that becomes tedious for two simple reasons: Its extravagances have nothing to do with its pebble of a plot ; and the plot, which could be wrapped up in approximately two songs, dawdles through 22 before it declares itself done ... Mr. Sondheim may be too much a man of the seventies, too present-tense sophisticated ... The effort to bind it up inhibits the crackling, open-ended, restlessly varied surges of sound he devised with such distinction for " Company '.

It even spoofs major theatre topics, such as the high prices of tickets, the confusion between Chita Rivera and Rita Moreno, the deterioration of Broadway, and the difficulty of Sondheim's lyrics.